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“It ave ht How could there not have been a click in Ethan’s mind when he heard my surname?”

“It is kind of unique” Like the man himself

He said, “There’d never been even the tiniest flicker of recognition in his eyes Not a hint And he’d spent that first year and a half courting me the way professors do with favored students” He drained his tumbler and splashed in more scotch

“I wouldn’t really know I’m not a financial whiz or a rocket scientist”

He grinned “You’re plenty smart And resourceful”

“I do like co about Ethan…?”

“Right So he spent the first few see We attended faculty-student networking functions, lectures, global presentations He seemed to have no idea who I was, and that did make sense, because I’d wiped the slate clean on the Internet, as far as my family was concerned”

“Which is a mind trip unto itself”

“With Aanizations I made sure I wasn’t the least bit relevant on the Web, aside from a few approved articles from the Wall Street Journal I’d covered my tracks By the time I’d arrived at Harvard, I was just a set in when he had no family connections and no real hi

story to draw upon”

“Your father didn’t go to Harvard?”

“No, he was a Yale man”

I did a little pacing ofyou in, I’d think”

He chuckled “It doesn’t exactly work that way Anyway, since my parents died when I was just a ation, connection, funding, whatever Aot into the right schools, but they were more practical about it than political”

“Meaning they didn’t suck up?”